| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Perspectives on Society and Culture |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- HEBREW ABBREVIATIONS -- HEBREW AND ARABIC TRANSLITERATION -- CHAPTER 1: IBN AL-AHDAB -- CHAPTER 2: THE HEBREW AND ARABIC EPISTLES -- CHAPTER 3: A MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARY OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER -- CHAPTER 4: THE UNICUM -- CHAPTER 5: AN EDITION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER -- CHAPTER 6: AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER -- CHAPTER 7: A LEXICON OF THE MATHEMATICAL TERMS IN BOOK II -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
The first edition of The Epistle of the Number, composed in Syracuse, Sicily, at the end of the 14th century. It is the first known Hebrew treatise to include extensive algebraic theories and procedures, exposing novel mathematical vocabulary, and enhancing our understanding of the linguistic mechanisms which helped create scientific vocabulary in medieval Hebrew |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019) |
| Subject |
Al-Aḥdab, Iṣḥak ben Shlomo, 1396-1429?
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| SUBJECT |
Al-Aḥdab, Iṣḥak ben Shlomo, 1396-1429? fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Medieval.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1463236549 |
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9781463236540 |
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